 Hey guys it's Nate aka The Foot Accountant and welcome back to the channel. We have approximately one week left of FIFA 23 before the EA FC hype really starts to kick in. Have EA saved the best cover star icon SBC for last? There's one massive cover star icon that we're still looking to see and maybe it's dropping tomorrow. We'll hopefully see one last big cover star as pre-season freshens up tomorrow with more cards and packs and a lot of content. Now we're going to talk about that a little bit but I also want to talk about stuff that's going on in the menus right now that's affecting our craft and our chance at 99s. One of the best SBCs was released yesterday, once again, more times repeatable to pack those 99 rated footies cards that so many of us are chasing right now in this game. And we have some more ratings to look at. We dropped a big video yesterday taking a look at a lot of leaked and confirmed EA FC 24 ratings and we have a few more to add on top that in today's video. So if you're excited for it drop a thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's go over yesterday's content really quickly because hey, we had a player SBC yesterday but I think it's one that a lot of people are going to overlook Daily Blend. This might be the biggest ever Daily Blend rating on any of his cards we've ever seen but he's 3 star 5 star 1 squad to get done. Not the best of links but if you're Dutch, you need to Dutch center back in your team maybe to go with beside VVD or something like that it is a nice 1 squad SBC to do. I don't see a ton of people doing that SBC but it is a transfer Daily Blend to Girona. So there you go. Not bad from EA. It is what it is. Now also the big SBC yesterday that we're talking about and got a lot of people excited. Yesterday was actually a pretty good content day because of this SBC right here. The 94 plus footies player pick. They made it cheaper but we're seeing double right now. The same thing happened yesterday and I didn't even notice it. The 87 plus player pick. There was a footies one that expired yesterday and there was also the brand new one that dropped on what Tuesday. There was also like the pre-season one right. And now we have two 94 plus player picks. I didn't do the ones from earlier because that was gone in a way right. And then this one dropped yesterday that is cheaper. It's only two squads and 89 and 92 to complete. And it's easy to craft with the 85 times 10 guys. We opened a bunch of these on stream yesterday. There's going to be a video of that on the second channel today. Make sure you check that out. I'll leave a link right up here to get to the channel. But this is your best shot at getting 99 rated again. This SBC being out being able to do it five times a day. That's the biggest W right. This 94 plus from last week. You couldn't do it as many times as you can do this one. So it's a massive W kind of giving us that last step of the end game grind to just give us another chance at getting those 99s. Now I was not able to get any more of those yesterday personally. But I think I packed somebody that was halfway decent. I forget who it was but I did get a pretty high rated player. And we did see a good amount of people hitting 99. So that is your best chance to get those right now. But yeah, do that new one. It's five times a day which is the best part right. You see that refresh timer counting down. That's going to reset at 6 p.m. content today. We'll be able to do it once again. We'll be opening them on stream again today because that's the best grind right now. 85 times 10 into that. And then of course if you're doing any player species and kind of like I am catching up on a few of those still. And then you know that's a good grind to do as well. But the 85 times 10s, some people are saying, ah Nate they kind of feel nerfed. They kind of feel bad. I still don't understand why this World Cup but you're going to as impacts every time you see that you know who it's going to be. At least that animation and that walk out. Man, see that's how a lot of the 85 10s look right now. But to be honest, when you get a 95 rated like that it's not bad. You just have to do a few more of them to like stack up on all the fodder with the players that are in packs. That's one of the things I'm looking forward to with preseason and the stuff that changes up this Friday is how are they going to make the cards in packs better? I hope they don't make it worse. We're going to talk about that a little bit more tomorrow. One other thing I wanted to point out and I just messed it up because I can't go into the store now. There actually are promo packs but they're not good promo packs. There's a 50 and 100K pack, not the 400K pack that we would all like to replenish our clubs. But a lot of people right now are actually doing the 82 times 100, I think, to get a lot of that middle to low tier fodder back into their ultimate teams. It is five squads, but it's not a bad shout since we don't have a 400K pack in the store. That's an SBC to consider to get a big boy pack pool but also to get a lot of 83s, 84s, 85s back in your club but then you can use for the 85 and 86 times 10 as you are crafting. So actually a decent shout to go ahead and craft that SBC but now let's look ahead a little bit guys because as we looked at this tweet a couple of weeks ago, right? It's been a little bit of a bit of time since we talked about another cover star icon. Last Friday, of course, we wondered was EA going to continue with the cover stars or were they going to stop because it was the end of footies and they didn't stop. They released a 99 rated footies end of footies beginning of preseason, Thierry Henri, right? And that was a big W, a huge GG from EA Sports. And now we are sitting here asking ourselves is there going to be a preseason player this Friday because or sorry, a cover star icon player this Friday with the second week of preseason. It seems like there should be. The only thing that I'm kind of interested in is there's not a very big player pool to choose from but there is one massive player that we all want to see, right? And that is R9 was on the cover of the 2018 FIFA 18 was the icon edition, one of the highest edition he had one of those cards. And of course right now all we have is the trophy Titans version of R9. There's not very many other players that it could be that we haven't had SBCs for already. You know, one player that it could be is Maldini. He was in the FIFA 98 cover but he still has for three more days. He's got a foot birthday SBC that's in that icon section. Then it also could be Schweinsteiger but he had a shapeshifter's card. It could be Kaka, but he's had an SBC semi recently. It also could be Vieira. So any number of those players and then also David Beckham. I feel like this Friday is either gonna be Vieira, Beckham or that very, very wanted and desired R9. I mean, it would just be fitting even though it's literally gonna be a week before we're all done playing FIFA 23 anyway. If we had a 99 R9 just to have and to craft and have fun with, who says no, right? With all the crafting right now, the 85 times 10 and all that, that's the cover star icon that we've all wanted to see even if it's delayed this long, being able to use it for a few days would be like GGZ-A. That'd be a fun one to craft. If they make it very similar to the tierry on RE, I mean, it's gonna be expensive. It's gonna be a bit of a grind to craft but it would also just be like, you know, a thank you to EA like a W of like, okay, we got it. Like, you know, the 99 rated R9. So that's why I'm hoping that EA is saving the best for last. With that, it's not leaked. It is not confirmed in any way, shape, or form. I just feel like EA's got one more cover star icon up their sleeve and it's gotta be, in my opinion, Beckham, Vieira, or R9. And I'm really hoping that it is R9. That's really all we have to hope for right now on FIFA 23. Of course, with the 85 times 10 grind and grinding everything through the picks and the player picks, trying to hit those 99 ratings, it is fun. But also, I feel you like it's getting a little bit old. There's a bit of gameplay that we're doing right now as well, if you're playing a week in league, if you're playing rivals at all, or if you're just doing some squad battles games mindlessly to get these packs built up for FC 24. I think it is a good grind. I've started to do that myself, only got one game down. But I'm probably just gonna rubber band some squad battles, score a goal, stick the rubber band on, and then get those games finished out so that I can get that objective, the join the club objective done. And then today on Thursday, I'll be able to do the last new era upgrade to get that done and dusted. And then I'll have the coin boost and whatever in FC 24 as well. Now, what content's gonna come today? I mean, I don't know, I'm still getting the showdown SBC vibes, right? I know we had a player SBC yesterday, but we have some player SBCs that are expiring on Friday, Holland, Modric. So whether it comes today on Thursday or tomorrow on Friday, I just feel like we gotta get another showdown, right? All we've had so far was the Mason Mount Declan Rice. There's gotta be another one. Last year during pre-season, we had a handful of those showdowns, and I feel like we have to have a little bit more. I mean, those guys are transferred cards anyway, like for the Declan Rice and the Mount, so they don't get dynamic images. Just like we've seen in all the transferred cards, it's just the player's kind of a face shot and like Jude Bellingham doesn't have a dynamic. He's probably not gonna get one. Same thing with Kim and Jay. Same thing with Daily Blend from yesterday. So it'd be showdown cards. Once again, they would probably, if they're transfers, of course, not have the dynamic images, but I hope that they can do that and go ahead and find a showdown for the international break games that are starting today. That would be fun and that would be interesting. And yeah, it'd be cool players. We don't complain about those types of content pieces. So watch out for that today. Other than that, just a daily refresh. You know, the 94 plus picks on repeat. We're gonna open more of those today and try to pack some of you guys and myself as well. Try to pack some of those 99s, man. We're still chasing. It's tough to get them, but it's fun going after them for sure. So other stuff I wanna talk about are the leaks for the ratings that have been going on in the past there too. Right now, we have a combination of like the FC24 and the FIFA 23 content. And with the ratings that were leaked and talked about yesterday, I really wanna spend a little bit of time talking about this because some of these ratings actually look really, really good, specifically on Liverpool, guys. I don't know what EA has got cooking up with Liverpool. Yes, Salah and VVD got downgrades and some of these other cards got a little bit of a downgrade as well. But Luis Diaz still looks really, really good. 91 pace, 87 dribbling. Gacpo looks really solid as well for a starter card. Nunez got an upgrade in pace. He's 90 pace now instead of 89. That's a really good looking card right there, especially for an early game striker. Yes, the shooting's not gonna be as high. Dribbling is not as high as well. But 90 pace, he will be very usable. And Solbasly as well, being an 82 rated card, but having 84 passing and then 82 and above in dribbling, shooting and pace is a very, very solid card there. He should also, I think, his base card in FIFA 23 might have a five-star weak foot or at least a four-star. He's four-star, four-star in his base card for 23. So hopefully he's four-four in 24 as well. That could be a really nice starter card for your early game teams. Conate is a decent looking card as well. Gravenbridge looks solid and Joe Gomez is always meta. You guys remember Joe Gomez from like FIFA 21 or FIFA 20. He was like one of the most insane meta center backs to start the year off. He's gonna be good again this year as well as always. Liverpool ratings look really nice for like overpowered links in game. And that's nice to see. So I wanted to kind of spend some time looking at those. If you haven't seen those, foot scoreboard on Twitter, continue me to tweet out a lot of the leaks. We did get some information. We talked about it in yesterday's rating video. If you missed that, Marta is gonna have five-star skills. Now the pace being 72 is definitely a bit of a bummer. And it hurts the card a little bit. But 88 dribbling with 82 shooting and 85 passing kind of gives me like Coutinho vibes for a type of card that she might play as in game with very high dribbling and five-star skills, good passing, just not a lot of pace. So that should be a fun one right there. And then also we got the Newcastle ratings yesterday which there's not a lot of meta overpowered cards in here. There are a handful that I wanna point out to you. Of course, the first being Tonali. What a card for Sandro Tonali. He is gonna be one of the best prem midfielders with all 80 and above stats except for his shooting. Great looking card there for Sandro Tonali. He's gonna be super duper cracked. Bruno Gameres looks solid as well. Joe Linton looks really good for an 82. And then Esauk I think looks pretty good for an 81 rated card as well. Some decent ratings are nothing too crazy for those but definitely Tonali looks amazing. But if you compare like the Newcastle ratings to the Liverpool ratings, you can tell like, wow, Liverpool has a lot of other high rated cards in here that are gonna be usable straight out the bat. Other questions for Liverpool, Trent Alexander Arnold. Some of these guys are EA gonna give them some of their like alternate positions on their base gold cards. Or is EA really gonna say, hey, we're not gonna do too many alternate positions especially now that you have to, you don't have to use a position change for a lot of these. Like Trent's, a lot of Trent's cards this year can't play center mid. I doubt they would make Trent also play center mid from his base gold card. That just seems to be like something they could add in on a promo down the line and make that card more meta, more useful and more interesting instead of part from his gold. So I wouldn't imagine that this Trent card even though it looks perfectly fit for a midfield spot wouldn't imagine that it would have a center mid or a CDM position change on the base gold but we'll have to see. Still waiting on EA to tweet out and say anything about ratings. Like it's why are they waiting so long this year to talk about ratings? It's kind of disappointing. I mean, I know they usually drag it out and they pull it out and they wait and they wait and they kind of try to build up the hype but it's been like two weeks since we had substantial EA FC information straight from EA themselves. So I'm starting to kind of feel like, okay EA let's get something here. Let's get some concrete news on the table and start learning something about FC 24. Build the hype back up again. I feel like the hype started really, really strong when we had like the big reveals and the pitch notes and all that stuff. And I just feel like we've kind of gone downhill a little bit since then with all of the news and everything right now that we don't have that we would like to see in terms of news and content upcoming. So I'm gonna rinse this Ruben Neves back into the 85x10 keep crafting the SBCs that I'm going for and hopefully keep chasing those 99 rated cards but hopefully EA give us an opportunity to maybe craft into something new today whether it's a player SBC. Watch out for leaks again today guys the player rating leaks are still cooking they're still being dropped. Twitter is very, very active right now. I'm not posting a lot of those leaks on my Twitter but if you check out foot scoreboard if you check out foot sheriff a lot of those guys are posting the ratings that are dropping from whatever contacts or whatever information channels they're getting those ratings from a lot of stuff being posted there from those guys that have that information. So that's definitely something to keep an eye on let's see if we can lower their rating here at all we cannot. One more 85x10 to finish off the video and I will see you guys in the second channel today for some 94 plus player picks because it was fun honestly yesterday we hit some 99s I'm telling you guys like that is the best chance of hitting 99s for sure in that player pick. So if you're still chasing anything massive especially if it's a footies card that's the place to be crafting at this moment. One last 85x10 can we hit a 99 rated? We're gonna skip the team of the season because it's all about the pink cards in behind Socrates and Smalling not bad that's going straight back into it in 85x10 we're in 94 plus player pick. I'll see you guys in the second channel today thanks for watching the video as always I appreciate the support even in these in between moments between FC 24 and the end of fever 23 if you enjoyed it drop a thumbs up comment down below if you have any questions and of course subscribe if you're new it's been Nate for the count and catch you guys in a video tomorrow peace out.